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Some functional effects of sectioning the cerebral commissures in man* | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Tests involving tactual function have revealed no significant impairments in the right side of the body connected to the dominant left hemisphere For example, in blindfold tests, the patient has regularly been able to manipulate and use correctly most familiar objects such as a pencil, cigarette, ri
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  • Tests involving tactual function have revealed no significant impairments in the right side of the body connected to the dominant left hemisphere
  • For example, in blindfold tests, the patient has regularly been able to manipulate and use correctly most familiar objects such as a pencil, cigarette, ring, pistol, hat, glasses, etc., but has been totally unable to name or to describe any of these
  • Visual testing without tachistoscopic control in the present patient failed to demonstrate satisfactorily his left hemiagnosia
  • This boy performed close to the level of normal control children with almost no indication of the disconnection effects observed in the adult surgical patient.
  • Finally, it is entirely possible that a significant range of variability is normal in the development of callosal functions in different individuals, and that a corresponding spectrum is therefore to be expected in the syndrome of the corpus callosum

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